Unspecified 0-4-0 Locomotives in Germany

Class 100 hp (Locobase 4441)

Data from [] . One of series of light industrial engines featured in a catalogue.

The data include tonnage ratings for given grades as follows:

Grade Tons of trailing load -- Speed 7 mph

4.0% 25

3.3% 44

2.0% 78

1.2% 121

1.0% 146

0.5% 227

0.2% 365

Level 557

Max speed 18 1/2 mph. Sharpest curve radius 165'

Class 20 hp (Locobase 4437)

Data from [] . One of series of light industrial engines featured in a catalogue.

The data include tonnage ratings for given grades as follows:

Grade Tons of trailing load -- Speed 5 1/2 mph

4.0% 3

3.3% 6

2.0% 13

1.2% 21

1.0% 25

0.5% 41

0.2% 62

Level 89

Max speed 9 1/2 mph. Sharpest curve radius 33'

Class 225 PS for brown coal (Locobase 15522)

Data from SMU's DeGolyer Library digital collection at[], last accessed 23 October 2013.

Judging by the image and description, this industrial (Abraum or "slag-pile") locomotive was designed to operate around very tight curves and burn very low calorie coal. The frame seems extraordinarily robust with thick plates behind the front buffers to absorb heavy shocks. The wide drivers' tires allowed the engine to drift across the rails. If the observer were not aware of the narrowness of the gauge, he could easily take the bulk of this profile for a much larger locomotive.

Class 300 hp (Locobase 4442)

Data from [] . One of series of light industrial engines featured in a catalogue

The data include tonnage ratings for given grades as follows:

Grade Tons of trailing load -- Speed 13 1/2 mph

4.0% 38

3.3% 68

2.0% 121

1.2% 189

1.0% 228

0.5% 370

0.2% 570

Level 870

Max speed 25 mph. Sharpest curve radius 140'

Class 50 hp (Locobase 4438)

Data from [] . One of series of light industrial engines featured in a catalogue

The data include tonnage ratings for given grades as follows:

Grade Tons of trailing load -- Speed 6 1/4 mph

4.0% 14

3.3% 24

2.0% 43

1.2% 65

1.0% 78

0.5% 122

0.2% 178

Level 254

Max speed 11 1/4 mph. Sharpest curve radius 65'

Class 60 hp (Locobase 4439)

Data from [] . One of series of light industrial engines featured in a catalogue.

The data include tonnage ratings for given grades as follows:

Grade Tons of trailing load -- Speed 6 1/4 mph

4.0% 17

3.3% 30

2.0% 54

1.2% 82

1.0% 98

0.5% 153

0.2% 224

Level 320

Max speed 15 1/2 mph. Sharpest curve radius 100'

Class 80 hp (Locobase 4440)

Data from [] . One of series of light industrial engines featured in a catalogue. The data include tonnage ratings for given grades as follows:

Grade Tons of trailing load -- Speed 6 1/4 mph

4.0% 21

3.3% 36

2.0% 64

1.2% 98

1.0% 116

0.5% 180

0.2% 265

Level 378

Max speed 18 1/2 mph. Sharpest curve radius 130'

Class Fabia (Locobase 5968)

Data from [] (19 March 2004) and [] (visited 5 Jan 2005). Little side tank built for industrial use. Henschel had already supplied locomotives of this type for the 90-cm gauge beginning in 1877 and saw this as a natural extension into the narrower gauges. It was rated at 50 hp.

See Locobase 4438 for Arthur Koppel's very similar 50-hp locomotive.

This particular example was built in 1928 (works #21147) to build inventory and only delivered in 1930 to Spoorijzer Delft in the Netherlands, who soon sold it to Van Wijcks Waalsteenfabrieken. VWW brickyard was located in Heteren, which sat on substantial clay deposits. Once the nearby lodes had been exhausted, the operation and the locomotive crossed the Rhine The narrow-gauge museum site notes that this kind of extraction was suspended during the winter and that the locomotives would be shedded until spring.

After a stint under German control during World War II, clay mining resumed to support the Netherlands' reconstruction. Working for various companies in various locations for 20 years, the locomotive at last retired in 1966.

Retirement was fraught with uncertainty as this example passed from owner to owner and nearly entered the scrap-monger's furnace in 1971. Ultimately, the smallspur museum took ownership in 1985.